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Arlington
Cemetery, VA – How ironic: from cemetery to cemetery. At the first
cemetery, near Dike’s Bridge about 1 hour before driving off into the
canal-pond where Mary Jo Kopechne was left in the back seat of a car to
drown overnight, drunken Senator Ted Kennedy allegedly fooled around for
about an hour with his deceased older brother’s, Bobby Kennedy’s, former
administrative assistant, Mary Jo Kopechne. Transcripts of Kennedy’s
supposed attempts to “save” Mary Jo are rife with contradictions upon
contradictions upon contradictions, some directly from Kennedy’s seemingly
made-up account, some from other witnesses.

The secret
transcripts of the secret inquest can now be read at the FBI’s Web posting,
obtained by the Freedom of Information Act, at
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/chappaquiddick.htm
. The transcripts make for very interesting court room reading as the
prosecutor/inquirer politely grills Senator Kennedy in a back and forth
Perry Mason style of interrogation in which Kennedy stumbles, fumbles, and
contradicts himself all over the place.

Later, at the second cemetery, Arlington Cemetery in Virginia, the
so-called “Lion of the Senate” is eulogized as the second coming combo of
Jesus Christ and Mother Theresa, saving everybody in the world from poverty,
famine, illiteracy, and sickness.

How shall we remember Senator Ted Kennedy? As a Welfare Statist “Lion in
the Senate,” or a drunken coward who may have committed negligent homicide
against a poor young woman trapped in an overturned car near Chappaquiddick
by possibly falsifying his so-called rescue account AND never once during
those “rescue” attempts tried to notify the police, the nearby fire
department, Mary Jo’s friends at the party, or anybody at any home near the
accident site or at the Inn where Kennedy was staying until the next morning
after his upside down car had already been discovered in the shallow
canal-pond by some youths and reported to the police?

If you believe the major news media, Kennedy is more Jesus than our
current national socialist President Barack Obama. He authored or
co-authored some 2,500 legislative bills, mostly Welfare State bills in
keeping with his – and his mother, Rose’s – Catholic moral philosophy of
self sacrifice of the individual to the collective. You know, the public
good. It’s their moral duty, said Rosie. Translated into plain English,
this means if you’re a public servant, then it’s your job to implement a
Welfare State to rob Peter to pay Paul while simultaneously robbing Paul to
pay Peter as a religious moral obligation enforced by the collective
coercive power of force, ultimately at the point of a gun, which is the
definition of government. Big Brother acts as the Thugocracy Broker by
using either taxation or deficit financing, or both, to implement someone’s
idea of a Welfare State, which in the Kennedy household was a virtue.

God only knows how many millions of lives have been adversely affected
and trillions of taxpayer dollars have been redistributed and squandered on
the waste, fraud, and abuse brought about by Senator Ted Kennedy’s
legislative road to serfdom, dragging Americans through the failures of
public education, public welfare, and now through an attempt at Obama’s and
Kennedy’s multi-trillion dollar boondoggle of pending national socialist
health care.

If you believe the transcript of Kennedy’s secret inquiry at
Chappaquiddick, however, a far different profile emerges: namely, one of a
rich drunken womanizer who took great pains to allegedly lie about the
account of Mary Jo Kopechne’s death at Chappaquiddick. Causing the death of
somebody through drunk driving is not murder, but it is manslaughter.
Concealing the facts of the case is not only perjury, it is obstruction of
justice. It is also grounds for removal from the U.S. Senate, which, of
course, did not happen.

Worse than the profile of Ted Kennedy’s morality at Chappaquiddick,
however, is our U.S. Justice system, proving that a rich, drunken, Welfare
State politician can “game” the system to get away with what, in our
opinion, appears to have been a clear cut case of drunken homicide, or
manslaughter. How hypocritical for a 47-year Congressional politician to
run for office on the Catholic morality of “helping others” while allegedly
allowing a “lover” or friend to drown in order to cover up the fact of his
drunk driving, womanizing, and God only knows what else.

Hey, supposition, supposition, maybe Mary Jo was pregnant, I don’t know. It
was not mentioned in the autopsy report because an autopsy was never
performed but I wouldn’t be surprised if
Kennedy and Mary Jo had been carrying on previously for quite a while after
Bobby died and she may have told him some bad news, like, oops I’m
pregnant. If that was true, and I’m not saying it is, then this case would
move from manslaughter to possible murder. Motive and intent to do nothing
to save her
on purpose
would open up a whole new ball game but we have no proof whatsoever for such
a claim and do not make it here or anywhere else.

The upshot is: Ted Kennedy was not a “lion” of the Senate or anything
else; he was a “pussy” without the moral cajones to do all he could to save
a drowning woman who he drove off a Bridge at Chappaquiddick. – FM Duck

P.S. Major Chappaquiddick inquiry inconsistencies:

1. First, Kennedy said the car’s driver side window was open, then a few
questions later, he said it was closed, then later he said it was open. The
coroner’s report said both driver’s side and passenger side windows were
open. Mary Jo’s body was not found in the front seat; it was found in the
back seat. That's strange. Do bodies fly backwards when a car hits a
brick wall? Only in Kennedy's universe. Air bubbles kept her
alive for awhile but since nobody contacted the police or emergency fire
department nearby, nobody showed up with equipment to save or help revive
her. Instead, Kennedy said he repeatedly dove down the few feet to save her
3-4 times for 15-20 minutes, gave up, sat on shore for another 15-20 minutes
to rest, then “stumbled” for another 15-30 minutes back to the party to
surreptitiously obtain help from only two people whom he informed within the
private confines of one of their cars. Then the three men drove back to the
scene of the crime, oops, I mean accident, and spent another 30-45 minutes
trying to dive down and save her, they said in the inquiry transcripts.
Even after they failed nobody contacted the police, the fire department, the
ferry operator who was on call across the street, or any home nearby to call
for help, or the people back at the party, or the innkeeper where Kennedy or
the other two men were staying UNTIL after 8 am – 9 am the next morning.
That’s an absolutely incredible story. Neither Kennedy nor his two buddies
knocked on anybody’s door for help or phoned emergency or the police. Phone
records did show, however, some 9-15 private telephone calls were made by
Kennedy and/or his two buddies all through the night but not for Mary Jo’s
help; it was for Kennedy’s help, or should we say apparent future cover-up
story? Kennedy called lawyers, family, friends, and everybody except the
cops or emergency.

2. Kennedy said he got out of the car, how he did it he said he doesn’t
know, but that the “strong” current – subsequently revealed as “not strong”
-- carried him 30-40 feet downstream. Then he waded back on the side
because of the alleged “strong” current and swam over to the upside down
car. He said he could see the front of the car since the headlights were
still on… under water. Hmm, let me see now. The car’s engine was not
running so the lights could not have been running off the alternator or
generator. So the lights must have been on from the car’s battery, right?
Buzz, wrong. Not possible unless GM builds completely sealed, waterproof
battery terminals, waterproof battery cables wired to the lights and a
waterproof light switch to the dash, which I truly doubt. If I drop a car
battery or any other battery into water, the water will immediately short
circuit both terminals, since water is a great conductor of electricity, and
burn out the battery like real fast. One cannot submerge a car into a lake
or river or any body of water with the battery keeping the lights on because
car batteries cannot function under water. Remember all the Colombo murder
mysteries or James Bond stories in which the Bad Guy electrocutes the victim
by pushing the plugged-in lamp or heater into the bath tub and fries the
crap out of the person taking a bubble bath? Same story if one dumps a car
battery into a river with the lights on. You may fry a few nearby fish with
the powerful car battery as it shorts out but it won’t keep the lights on
for over a fraction of a second before the battery simply burns out. Don’t
try this experiment at home. Plenty of home mechanics have inadvertently
touched the hot red positive terminal of their car battery with the metal
portion of a tool while touching the negative pole or a metal grounded
portion of the vehicle and fried their little butts as it shorts out the
battery through their body. It usually doesn’t totally kill the battery in
the garage mechanic’s case since they drop the metal tool like quicksticks
and are not under water in their garage. If they don’t drop the tool they
can be killed instantly. The point is that Kennedy couldn’t possibly have
seen the car’s lights still shining under water while trying to save Mary Jo
because his account doesn’t jive with the known laws of physics RE car
batteries operating head lights under water. Maybe he had a James Bond
submarine car made by “Q?”

3. Kennedy said he didn’t see any lights on at homes nearby. Really? The
home right across the bridge had a night light on all night, said the home
owner. A red light was on at the nearby fire department. Lights on at the
party. Lights on at his Inn. At any rate, so what? You don’t need a light
on at a house to knock on the door during an emergency. And especially at
the party still going on and at the Inn to which Kennedy amazingly “swam”
across another lake for hundreds of yards after he said he was dead tired
instead of calling for the on-call ferry whose phone number was posted right
there at the dock. Also amazing, at the same time, 12:30 am, a little motor
boat was stolen and left on the side of the lake near the Inn. Hmm, what a
coinkydink. Maybe he didn’t swim. Who knows?

4. Lots more questions not answered or even asked at the secret inquiry
which was only made available after being forced by a request RE the Freedom
of Information Act. Log onto
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/chappaquiddick.htm
and check it out for yourself.

Again, this is not a RIP eulogy for Senator Ted Kennedy. This is a RIP
eulogy for Mary Jo Kopechne, the true victim. And it is not against Kennedy
per se that we reveal the FBI’s Chappaquiddick transcript information. He’s
dead, who cares? It is against Kennedy’s
bankrupt and hypocritical moral philosophy of altruistic state collectivism
espoused by him and all the mindless news journalists, TV pundits, and
Congressional idiots that we bring up the Chappaquiddick transcripts because
too many Bozos busy eulogizing their favorite Welfare Statist for his
Welfare Statist ideas have no idea about the true personality of this man
and what happened in this case. I tell ya, girl friends, it’s enough to
make anybody who believes in individual rights, the U.S. Constitution, free
market capitalism and the proper role of government in a limited republic to
slug back a few rums and coke, drink “a third of a can of beer,” quote
unquote from the Kennedy transcripts, and drive off a cliff. – FM Duck